Volunteers Needed For Collingswood Bike Rodeo

The following was originally written by John Boyle and posted on the Greater Philadelphia Bicycle News. It is reprinted here with the permission of our friends at the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia.

Local Advocacy works! The Collingswood Streets group will be sponsoring their first event - a Bike Rodeo at the Collingswood Green Festival on April 16th.

Collingswood Streets needs volunteers to help make the event a success. Specifically they are looking for:

• People to join the planning committee.
• LCI's (League Certified Instructors) for the day of the event
• Other volunteers with strong bicycle skills
• Bike mechanics

To volunteer contact Stella Bonaparte founder of Collingswood Streets.
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Collingswood also hosts a community Bike Share program which allows residents to borrow a refurbished bicycles for extended periods of time.

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Advocate Develops a Bike Lane Plan For Collingswood

From John and our friends at the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia:

Local champions are key to making our first generation suburbs bicycle friendly. Case in point is Collingswood Streets founder Stella Bonaparte who has completed a bike lane evaluation study for the borough of 17,000 in Camden County. Bonaparte looked at the existing conditions and a history of bicycle crashes on Haddon Ave and Collings Ave as well as parallel streets such as Maple Street and found that bike lanes are indeed feasible on both Haddon and Collings. Bicycle parking and access to the PATCO High Speed Line was also looked at.

While this evaluation was only a feasibility study it deserves to be integrated into the County's growing list of local bicycle and pedestrian planning projects such as the Central Camden County Bicycling and Multi Use Trail Plan and the Camden GreenWay trails plan.

You can access the report on the Collingswood Streets website on the Livable Streets Network.

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The intersection of Haddon and Collings Ave in Downtown Collingswood